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IDEMIA delivers 195 tablets and provides Civil Identity database to register 2.4 million children

COURBEVOIE, France-Friday 21 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, in partnership with CIVIPOL, the technical cooperation operator of the French Ministry of the Interior, DIGITECH, a leading provider of paperless Civil Registry solutions, UNFPA, the United Nations Population Fund and CARITAS, a confederation of 165 Catholic relief, development and social service organizations, announces the first deployment of the open-standard Identity Management interface OSIA in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). This World Bank funded project aims to register 2.4 million children and produce 600,000 birth certificates. The consortium led by CIVIPOL supports the ambitious goal set out by the United Nations General Assembly “One ID for all by 2030.”

The consortium focusses on two project streams: the first s ... Read more »

 Award Presented by Storage Magazine at the “Storries XVI” Annual Ceremony

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.-Friday 21 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- ExaGrid®, a leading provider of intelligent hyperconverged storage for backup, today announced that it has been voted Storage Magazine’s “Enterprise Backup Hardware Product of the Year” at its annual awards ceremony Storries XVI. Winners are determined by public vote, so receipt of this award is especially important; it heralds the collective voices of ExaGrid’s customers and partners, and further validates the excellence of ExaGrid’s differentiated product architecture and superior customer support model.

“We’re honored to accept this award from Storage Magazine,” said Bill Andrews, President and CEO of ExaGrid. “ExaGrid’s deduplication and its scale-out architecture provides customers with a consistent backup window re ... Read more »

Algorand Foundation ushers in the Borderless Economy built on first-of-its-kind public and permissionless blockchain platform from Turing Award winner Silvio Micali 

SINGAPORE-Friday 21 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Algorand Foundation announced today the successful completion of its inaugural Algo auction, marking the launch of the Algorand platform and its original economic model that uses a unique combination of consensus-driven blockchain technology and economic incentives to ensure absolute fairness and broad participation in a new Borderless Economy. The auction brings Algos, the native token of the Algorand blockchain platform, into market circulation for the first time. Originally scheduled to last for more than five hours, the auction sold out in under four hours, due to oversubscribed demand from a large group of global participants. The Dutch Auction mechanism ensured the market, not the seller, set the price of the offering and that ... Read more »

 For providing quality healthcare services to its customers

Dubai, United Arab Emirates, -Thursday 20 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

Jumeirah was recognized as one of UAE’s strongest brands at the 15th annual Superbrands tribute event, held on June 18 at the Intercontinental Dubai-Festival City. Out of approximately 150 leading brands, 48 brands from the UAE were awarded Superbrand Status at the event, considered as the ‘Oscars of Branding’ by the corporate world.

Dr Waleed Achi, COO, Emirates Healthcare and officials from Emirates Hospital - Jumeirah, including Dr Ashishkumar M. Jaiswal-Director of Operations, Atul John-Hospital Director, Dr Suhail Kazim-Medical Director and Consultant General Surgeon, and Dr Wael Sammur-Group Medical Director, were present at the event during the announcement.

Speaking about the recognition, Dr Waleed Achi, said, “We are delighted to receive this recognition. Brands are all about building trus ... Read more »

 Partnership aims to deliver world class experiences to fans, players, clubs and grass roots cricket ecosystem

MELBOURNE, Australia-Thursday 20 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- HCL Technologies (HCL) and Cricket Australia (CA) have today announced a multi-year partnership, with HCL being chosen as the Digital Technology Partner of CA.

HCL, a leading global technology company, will help the Australian cricket’s governing body provide an elevated and immersive digital experience to cricket fans, players, partners, employees, and volunteers across the country and around the world, through CA’s digital offerings.

HCL will implement its Scale Digital methodology to enable Cricket Australia to unite and inspire their cricket community through advanced digital platforms.

Cricket Australia selected HCL Technologies following an extensive search for a trusted digital partner that has proven credentials in enabling digital tra ... Read more »

 Aegon UK selects Legerity’s IFRS 17 solution

LONDON -Thursday 20 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Aegon UK, a leading savings, protection and investment service provider has selected Legerity Limited’s FastPost IFRS 17 solution to help it transition to the new International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS 17). The new standard takes effect from January 2022 and is one of the most significant changes to accounting in the insurance sector in years,

Legerity will provide Aegon UK with its third generation FastPost Accounting Rules and Sub-Ledger solution for implementation as an integrated part of its overall IFRS 17 accounting and reporting process.

David Wilson, IFRS 17 Programme Director at Aegon UK, comments, “IFRS 17 is a complex standard impacting multiple stakeholders including Actuarial, Finance and IT. There is no one size fits all solution for IFRS 17 so it is important that we selected best i ... Read more »

SAN DIEGO -Thursday 20 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Invivoscribe is pleased to announce that on June 5th the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) approved our LeukoStrat® CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay as the companion diagnostic for Daiichi Sankyo’s Quizartinib for the treatment of FLT3-ITD positive relapse/ refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) patients in Japan. At the same time the Japanese MHLW added approval in use of EDTA collection tubes to the existing approval of heparin collection tubes used with this assay.

The QuANTUM-R study demonstrated that quizartinib resulted in a statistically significant improvement in overall survival (OS) compared to salvage chemotherapy when patients were selected with the LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay. Mutations in the FLT3 gene are among the most important driver mutations in AML.

This milestone further establishes the LeukoStrat CDx FLT3 Mutation Assay as the international gold standar ... Read more »

MIAMI -Thursday 20 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

    Exclusive partnership with Virgin Voyages sees Geri Horner give RockStar seal of approval on the ship’s Mega RockStar Suites
    The brand expands offerings for Mega RockStar Suite Sailors
    Lavish Mega RockStar Suites package will now include a dedicated hair and makeup crew, unlimited beverages, personalized in-room bar and more

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Virgin Voyages is upping the game for its top suites aboard the highly anticipated Scarlet Lady, with new offerings to ensure that Mega RockStars won’t have to worry about a thing during their voyage.

Geri Horner Test Drives RockStar Suites

In celebration of the expanded offerings, the brand has today released exclusive video content of the suites, which features Virgin Group founder, Sir Richard Branson, and legendary British pop star, Geri Horner, of the hugely successful girl group, the ... Read more »

 Industry leader with extensive experience in the region to drive the company’s growth and help organizations on their path to digital transformation

LONDON-Wednesday 19 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Mitel®, a global leader in business communications, today announced the appointment of Feras Zeidan to lead the company’s operations in Middle East and Africa (MEA). As part of his role, Zeidan will be responsible for accelerating the company’s growth and strategic initiatives in the region. With the #1 market share position in EMEA1 and #2 in UCaaS worldwide2, Mitel is building on this momentum to further accelerate cloud adoption across EMEA while increasing its leadership position in the on-site market.

Zeidan brings more than 20 years of experience to the Mitel international team, having previously served as Vice President MEA and Turkey at Unify for three years, where he led the transformation of the com ... Read more »

COURBEVOIE, France -Wednesday 19 June 2019 [ AETOS Wire ]

(BUSINESS WIRE)-- IDEMIA, the global leader in Augmented Identity, launches its video analytics application enhancing security in public and private places.

Augmented Vision supports security officers in identifying persons of interest in real-time, and helps speed up post-event investigations. This latest cutting-edge technology from IDEMIA will enhance security in transport hubs (airports, stations…), stadiums and arenas, retail and commercial buildings, as well as gaming and entertainment sites that face growing security challenges.

The application is based on IDEMIA’s long-standing expertise in deep learning and biometrics for video and image analysis including IDEMIA’s facial recognition technology: a longstanding best-in-class combination of efficiency, scalability and accuracy for facial recognition as evidenced by IDEMIA’s leading position in the most recent NIST benchm ... Read more »